I work on feature branches that have annoying big names, so I often end up grepping my current branch name when I need to push up to the feature branch from my local feature branch, like so:
git branch | grep '*' | sed 's/* //' | xargs git push origin
This works fine. I want to make this an alias, so I did this in ~/.gitconfig:
[alias]
pushcur = branch | grep '*' | sed 's/* //' | xargs git push origin
Now, when I run git pushcur, I get the following error:
usage: git branch [options] [-r | -a] [--merged | --no-merged]
Leading me to believe that the alias is not properly parsing the pipes. Is there something else I should do to achieve the desired alias?
Best Solution
I don't think you can, but you can prefix it with an
!to treat the command as a new shell command